Tree Identification Notebook
Instructions:
Spring Semester 7th Grade Yr.
Please choose 25 of the following tree species to identify. Please select small branch of leaves that will fit on an 8.5” X
11” page. Leaves should be pressed and dried. Large heavy books work best. Newspaper works well to keep from
staining pages in book. Leaves should dry in a week. Once specimens are dried place them on a sheet of card stock or
printer paper. Photo albums with clinging sheets work well too. Rubber cement should glue specimens to pages. On
the page please include the Common Name and Scientific Name..
Fall Semester 8th Grade Yr.
YOU WILL NEED A TOTAL OF 36 (you will only need to add 11 to notebook) of the species below. Your Notebook
should contain no less than 6 CONIFERS.
If you would like to compete in the Georgia National Fair Leaf Notebook Contest please read the attached handout and
follow guidelines. Notebooks completed in this format will be judged locally and the top 3 will be sent to Ga Nat. Fair.
Notebooks do not have to be Identical. Table of Contents and Cover Page need to be identical. We will complete in
class. You will need to do the written specimens at home.
Common Name
1. American Beech
2. American Holly
3. American Sycamore
4. Ash
5. Baldcypress
6. Black Cherry
7. Black Locust
8. Black Walnut
9. Black Willow
10. Blackgum
11. Boxelder
12. Catalpa
13. Chestnut Oak
14. Chinaberry
15. Eastern Cottonwood
16. Eastern Hemlock
17. Eastern Hophornbeam
18. Eastern Redbud
19. Eastern Redcedar
20. Eastern White Pine
21. Flowering Dogwood
22. Honeylocust
23. Laurel Oak
24. Live Oak
25. Loblolly Pine
26. Longleaf Pine
27. Mockernut Hickory
28. Mulberry
29. Paulownia
Scientific Name
Fagus grandifolia
Ilex opaca
Platanus occidentalis
Fraxinus spp.
Taxodium distichum
Prunus serotina
Robinia pseudoacacia
Juglans nigra
Salix nigra
Nyssa sylvatica
Acer negundo
Catalpa bignonioides
Quercus prinus
Melina azedarach L.
Populus deltoides
Tsuga canadensis
Ostrya virginiana
Cercis canadensis
Juniperus virginiana
Pinus strobus
Cornus florida
Gleditsia triacanthos
Quercus laurifolia
Quercus virginiana
Pinus taeda
Pinus palustris
Carya tomentosa
Morus spp.
Paulownia tomentosa
30. Pecan
31. Persimmon
32. Post Oak
33. Red Maple
34. River Birch
35. Sassafras
36. Sawtooth Oak
37. Shortleaf Pine
38. Silver Maple
39. Slash Pine
40. Southern Magnolia
41. Southern Red Oak
42. Sweetbay
43. Sweetgum
44. Turkey Oak
45. Virginia Pine
46. Water Oak
47. White Oak
48. Willow Oak
49. Winged Elm
50. Yellow-Poplar
Carya illinoensis
Diospyrus virginiana
Quercus stellata
Acer rubrum
Betula nigra
Sassafras albidum
Quercus acutissima
Pinus echinata
Acer saccharinum
Pinus elliottii
Magnolia grandiflora
Quercus falcata
Magnolia virginiana
Liquidambar styraciflua
Quercus laevis
Pinus virginiana
Quercus nigra
Quercus alba
Quercus phellos
Ulmus alata
Liriodendron tulipifera
YOUTH EDUCATIONAL EXHIBITS - FFA 34
DENDROLOGY NOTEBOOK
John Allen Bailey • Coordinator
478-289-2558
dIVISION 34101 - Junior Dendrology Notebook (Students in the 9th grade and below)
DIVISION 34102 - Senior Dendrology Notebook
1. Each school may enter up to 3students’ leaf collection notebooks in each of the above classes (6 notebooks total).
The notebook should be the FFA notebook or any other standard hardback notebook. The entire class should use
the same type and color notebook.
2. Each junior notebook will contain tree samples from the Junior Natural Resources CDE tree list only. Each senior
notebook will contain tree samples from the Forestry CDE Tree List.
3. Chapter winners will be determined by the combined scores of the top three students’ notebooks.
4. Each Senior notebook must contain 40 forest tree species that are listed in the FFA Awards Bulletin. Each Junior
notebook must contain 36 forest tree species that are listed in the FFA Awards Bulletin. Each notebook should contain a
minimum of six conifers, four of which must include loblolly, longleaf, shortleaf and slash pines. The remaining leaves should
be hardwoods. Consideration should be given to trees that are economically important and natural to the area. Extra leaves
may be included, but will only be considered for tie-breaking purposes.
5. All notebooks must be original student work, prepared by the student entering the contest. Students must be enrolled in
middle school or high school at the time of this competition. Teachers may be asked to verify authenticity of students’ work.
6. Each notebook should contain:
A. Student’s name, school, grade, instructor’s name
B. Table of contents listing each species in the notebook
C. Leaves arranged by conifers and hardwoods
D. A written description of the specimen, including common name, descriptive features of the species, key characteristics,
wood description, uses and distribution area.
This information should be on the right-hand page of the notebook and the leaf specimen should be on the lefthand page of the notebook.
7. Display will be graded on: neatness, uniformity, quality of specimens, accuracy of identified specimens, quality and
originality of descriptions.
Ribbon Value
*Junior Division Champion $40, plaque & 400 points Blue 200 points
*Junior Divison Reserve Champion, $30, plaque & 300 points Red 100 points
*Senior Division Champion $40, plaque & 400 points White 50 points
*Senior Division Reserve Champion $30, plaque & 300 points HM No points
Dendrology Notebooks
Chapter Champion $100 & plaque
Chapter Reserve Champion $50 & plaque